Aside from the technical details of building a time machine, the possibility of going back in time to kill your ancestors and prevent your own birth has posed a serious problem for potential time travelers.

Researchers have discovered four new species of octopus in Antarctica with venom that works at sub-zero temperatures.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Thoughtful House Center for Children in Austin, Texas, have found remarkably similar brain changes to those seen in autism in infant monkeys receiving the vaccine schedule used in the 1990’s.

Our current industrial agriculture model is unsustainable and is contributing to the destruction of the planet. A new sustainable organic agriculture is essential to the survival of man.

Scientists in the US claim to have genetically engineered a malaria-resistant mosquito.

A new theory explains why tectonic plates move at different rates and solves other long-standing problems in Earth sciences, Australian scientists said.

Turning previous theories on their head, an Indian-origin researcher has claimed that there are many solitary sun-like stars in the universe, which exist without any stellar companion.

Advances in the fields of nanotechnology, neurology, psychology, and artificial intelligence might someday be used by governmental authorities to control the population.

Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.

The sun has been the inspiration for hundreds of songs, but now scientists have discovered that the star at the centre of our solar system produces its own music.

A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet.

A new study shows that kids with computers at home score lower on math and reading.

Researchers have discovered that methanogenic bacteria that produce methane in Canada could be similar to earlier or present springs on Mars – suggesting possibility of life sustenance.

Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, Nasa has warned.

The equivalence principle is one of the corner stones of general relativity. Now physicists have used quantum mechanics to show how it fails.

Most people are familiar with type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes, but did you know researchers have discovered a third type of diabetes? Type-3 diabetes, as they are calling it, affects people who are extra sensitive to electrical devices that emit “dirty” electricity.

An extract taken from green tea reduces cancer cells in the blood of patients with a form of leukaemia and may slow progression of the disease.

US scientists have found further evidence that huge seas existed long ago on Mars.

Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history.

Dr J. Craig Venter, an American scientist mostly famous for leading the project to map the human genome was recently in the news. Ventner has declared that he has created life in his lab.

Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, recently published results describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell.

Atmospheric scientist Gary Thomas of the University of Colorado has seen thousands of noctilucent cloud (NLC) photos, and he ranks the one last July 22, 2008 as among the best.

The 24-member team worked for nearly 15 years and spent more than $30 million to synthesise a parasitic bacteria found in cattle and goats. Immediately, the dangers are evident. Is the Venter Institute playing god?

The cost of producing a renewable nano-based “super material” for the food packaging and processing sectors has been slashed thanks to the development of breakthrough technology, said research company Innventia.

The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.

In many parts of the world, people rely on animal-derived products as important healthcare options. Unfortunately, such medicinal use can threaten species’ survival.

A predicted busy hurricane season this summer is on a collision course with an unprecedented oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the results are anyone’s guess, weather experts say.

Bill McKibben, a leading environmentalist, argues in “Eaarth’’ that we have already so thoroughly altered the physical features of the planet that we must start preparing for a radically simplified lifestyle.

New research reveals disastrous ecological impacts of the world’s top herbicide and the genetically modified (GM) crops made tolerant to it.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world.